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Achoo!

Lots of people are sick these days. The changing weather may be one reason, but here’s another. Cover your mouth when you sneeze, please! (I’m constantly amazed at how many people don’t do this — it’s common sense, no?)

Most of my students are probably too young to have seen this movie, but when I think about coughing and sneezing, I always think of this scene from the 1995 movie “Outbreak”: